FRENCH TROOPS FOR ODESSA.

Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 1, 12 April 1919, Page 5

FRENCH TROOPS FOR ODESSA.

TWO MUTINOUS REGIMENTS

BOLSHEVIST ARMY FORMIDABLE

[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.)

(Received April 11, 9.55 p.m.) New York, March 31. The "New, York Tribune's" Paris correspondent telegraphs that the French are sending several regiments to Odessa. Two regiments refused to proceed against the Bolsheviki. The "New York Tribune's" correspondent telegraphs from Petrograd that the Bolshevist army is a well drilled, disciplined, equipped, and officered force of a million men. The Soviet hopes to rase the number to three millions. The army receives high pay and more food than civilians. Thousands of officers of the Czar's regime enlisted voluntarily. The discipline is aarsher than before the revolution. ■"". •

Thousands of agitators are working night and day with money and promises to fill the men with revolutionary fire.